The world's English mania
Jay Walker explains why two billion people around the world are trying to learn English. He shares photos and spine-tingling audio of Chinese students rehearsing English -- "the world's second language" -- by the thousands.

If you liked the talk above then look up some other talks on the TED site.

Words in the news
BBC site that looks at some ome of the words that crop up in the news.

Voice Of America
Use the radio transcripts and audio files on our site to improve your American English and learn about current events, science, health, economics etc.